Excavator broke pin repair
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- John Deere excavator pin broke. It was greasier than your prom date; by the end of the night smiles all around.
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Everyone wants to be a field tech until it's time to do field tech shit.
When a supervisor asked me if I wanted to be a field tech, my response was " If you want me gone, you could just fire me. No need to force me to quit."...They haven't asked since.
It’s a love hate relationship, when it’s good it’s good but when your on your back in a half foot of water changing hydraulic hoses it’s shit
IDK man, I friggin love my job running all over fixing everything that breaks around the concrete company I workm for.
@@boyuncle3704 ,
It's one of those things it's in your blood or it's not . In the close to 50 yrs as a Mechanic, Being a Field Mechanic was the best part of my career.
I gotta tell ya, it's nice watching someone else struggle for a change.
life is not so bad between struggles eh
Yes, I love the hard physical work too. I could watch it all day!
@piast99 Someone in need of a shovel to lean on?
Holy crap that’s why I watch these videos after doing this all day at work…
fought a hyundai for the last two days and it's nice to see that too big a dingus end on the first go is a problem across the trades
Not gonna lie, I couldn't tell the difference between the different types of steel sparks on the grinder.
Me neither. I blame the camera. Always.
It’s easier to see in personn
It's the little things in life, if you don't stop and look around you might just miss it!! AVE one of the greats!
@@arduinoversusevil2025 I could but not at the some time it was more the way the moved like the 1st were more like a firework and the last were more in a line down
Whew, not just me then.
The proper way would be. Lube up the pin than drop it in the dirt.
Everytime...
It's not the proper way ..... It's the only way
Gold
Seriously, every fuckin' time!
man, todays vid and the comment have me cracking up, lol
I had a hearty chuckle at the end there. The combination of pure rage, and the desperation of a man miles past the end of his rope, with the empty grease gun being the last turd waffled into the treads of your boots on the eternal march to beer-thirty
The likelihood of said grease gun being empty is in direct proportion to the distance or difficulty of extracting oneself from the position one crawled into and the proximity of a fresh cartridge.
Been wrenching for over 30 years.
Have yet to meet a full grease gun.
Think those are like unicorns, mythical creatures and such.
Show me a full grease gun and I will find you sasquatch.
Every time!
Same is true for charged batteries.
I'm glad you mentioned the very real danger of pieces of wire flying off the wire wheels when they're installed on a grinder. One day working in my shop I felt something in the roof of my mouth that was actually pricking my tongue. I got the nerve up to pull on it and out came about a 2" wavy piece of wire that could have only come from one place. To this day I'm amazed that it entered my mouth, embedded itself completely in the soft palate and I never felt a thing. I started getting a lot more serious about using safety squints too - I don't think I would have been so lucky had it been one of my eyeballs.
Yeah, but the money you'll save not going to the acupuncturist is worth it.
I still have a piece of a knot wire brush from a die grinder in my forearm, they did 2 surgeries lookin for it and said fug it should be alright🤣 10yrs now
As a retired gas passer, I vaguely remember a case I did where the ENT guy extracted short 2 cm piece of wire wheel from some guys soft palate and I've plenty of foreign bodies in eyes.
I use a face shield after too many close calls. They are cumbersome, but worth it for how much I actually use the wire wheel.
I wear glasses, no side shields. I was using a wire wheel on a grinder when something hit my eye. It came under my glasses between my glasses and cheek. Usually dirt I told myself. Next day when it still felt like something in my eye, I went to the Dr. After a couple tugs on the piece of wire in my eyeball he gave up and sent me to a "specialist". A quick tug and the 1/4" piece was free. He then had to sand the rust of my eyeball so it wouldn't give me a foggy or rust color tint to my vision. I no longer trust my glasses and wear a full face shield when using the wire wheel.
When your boss wonders why it took you all afternoon to stick a pin back in the hole. Looks easy, should be easy, not easy.
Is it done yet? Is it done yet? i got this other urgent job... Is it done yet?
@@sinki19841984 And you rush out to the next job to find that the parts are wrong, the site is locked and the contact has been in the hospital getting his hip done for a week.
I made it to the end and still couldn't figure out if this is a "Repair video", "Don't buy a John Deere" video, or a video about the Worst pin design in human history.
Either way it's production value is great.
i love how grease just evaporates from a sealed gun hanging on the wall, but not out of the tube when its new
I have the cure for an empty grease gun!
I let the new guy borrow it and let him know not to bring it back without filling it!
I use it less than he does,
So if he complains that it's empty...
I just say did you see the dust on it when you took it down?
YOU were the last to use it dumba$$ !
I seem to always seemt to get the grease everywhere but where it's supposed to go
Grease gun is either completely empty or has like 1 pump of grease in the tube left and the store closes in 5 mins
Or how one small boob can cover your entire body yet the cartridge is always empty.
I thought I was the only person hoarding 95% empty oil quarts for some unknown future purposes, but Hot Damn we have something in common!! Keep your stick on the ice!
Thank you as always,
-CY Castor
Retention plates for the retention plates! Genius!
Belt and suspenders!
@@arduinoversusevil2025 In certain situations, don't trust your own pants..?
who's retaining the retainers...
@@tree_carcass_mangler In certain situations I don't trust what's in my pants!
@@EggBastion I nominate Mr. Cotter.
I can't hold that, I'm shining the Flashlight were I'm looking.
*shocked and upset when dad grabs your arm and lovingly yells 'PAY ATTENTION!'*
Yes! Thumbs up number 69
AND the comment is something relavent and hilarious
AND AvE described every 2nd saturday of my youth. (father owned 80's fords).
A UA-cam HatTrick?
(f it. I threw my hat out the window. Huge cele.)
@@arduinoversusevil2025 too many times in my life, or “Do you have to pee? Stop dancing around!”
@@arduinoversusevil2025 dad is that you??
@@arduinoversusevil2025 or you get much worse yelled at you!
You Sir, have no idea how refreshing it is to see a man of your caliber struggle just as much as the rest of us mere mortal folk. Cheers to ya! And thanks be for Natural Light!
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The blue loctite at 8:10 was a nice touch. That pin won't be bothering you again!
@@ETKSauron r/woosh
@@Bobs-Wrigles5555 now we may never learn of this greeeeze he spoke of
I luled, locktight...
good one bruh.
@@anelson2000 👍
It's grease worm food.
I had to laugh when you got out the enerpac. Made me think of my engine crane. The hardest part about using it every now and then is finding hydraulic oil for the blessed leaky beggar.
Yeah I guffawed too when he tossed that bad boy down. When you’re done negotiating and compromising.
Escalating is fun. I managed to break my internet, cable tv and water pipe all in one afternoon 😎
You missed the gas line?
Could you make a tool list for a guy that may have this same project coming up next week? You seemed to have had everything you needed to get the job done.
Did your trailer fall off the blocks? Haha
@@jordantwin1234 hahaha that one got me laughing really hard lol
I'm an operator in the winter and during the down time I wrench with the heavy mechanics..... nothing brings me more joy as when one of them grabs a grease gun that I know is out..... makes me smile every time....
Not a snowcat man are ya?
the perfect balance between a nudge and an act of war.well done, sir.
Sitting here recovering from the Shanghai shivers myself and feeling your pain. I get enough ambition to do something and am quickly ready for a two hour nap.
That pin sliding in ever so tightly. I miss you Amanda.
Nothing beats picking wire brush bristles out of your legs. Learned that lesson the hard way. Shorts are for swimming and dancing in a Mardi gras parade, not for the shop
Or your eyeball
I was using a wire wheel to strip paint once. Finished and went inside to clean up. Noticed a big knarly hair growing out of my chin. Turns out it was a piece of wire stuck in about 1/4".
Definitely don’t use a wire brush if you are a nudist
Best in your forearms, nothing like nailing your overalls to your arms !
Imagine that stupid look on my face when I noticed that my grinder is spinning about 35% above brush wheel rating. No wonder it was disintegrating at an alarming rate, with much pain.
At 9:25 I didn't hear the "click". Not sure if it's properly set.
I spent the whole video wondering why you would put the pin and plates back after they just snapped all your bolts, then was surprised at the end. Nice work, very clever fix 👏
He loves his hot metal glue gun.
Where I work every bolt gets the hot metal glue gun.
Gonna use the hot wrench to remove them anyway :)
I felt that at the end . Never a grease gun around with out more than 3 pumps in it .
Yeah, been there all too often. Empty grease gun/Weiner Schleiden/battery pack/that one particular screw length you need/5 mm masonry bit/10 mm socket/etc./etc./etc... All together now: "Every fucken time!"
It's like the weed eater that always runs out of string when I have 5 more feet of fence line to cut.
@@tybo09 in my experience, one time a year it'll make the last 5 feet. I'll also be feeling energetic, figure it's about empty, and go to reload for next time. By some sort of garden gnome slut magic the damn thing will still have a ton of string left, and I'll have to rewind the bastard back in.
Yeah, and it's never empty when you grab it off the shelf either. There is always just enough in it to make it seem like you can complete the job, making it so you have to refill it after getting halfway whrough the first fitting
You must have the same skillful workers there too. There is someone in our shop that consistently leaves 1-3 pumps in the grease gun. Accuracy only matched by a marine Sniper
Is it the click of a torque wrench or the click of your shoulder? The world may never know.
AvE is no spring chicken, that's a properly calibrated shoulder
Yup, the wrist pops at 15 ft/lbs, elbow at 50, and shoulder at 100. If ya gotta get more than that without an ugga dugga, you best just budget the chiropractor visit before you even pick up that wrench 😂
I was waiting for a click with the enerpac.
Torque everything to German standards: Gutentoit
@@mephInc teught like a teuger (austin powers reference)
"That pin ain't going nowhere!"
(Somebody had to say it. It's mandatory tradition)
Famous last words.
Yeah, was thinking it this is AvE's version of ratchet straping a couch to the roof of the car and saying "it's not going nowhere".
Well done solo job!
By the way, those glow-stripes on your sleeves can blind a driver when the headlights hit them. A coat of flat black paint will keep the night driver's vision sharp so they can read their smart phone better while driving.
Now, is anyone else going to mention the gouges in the adjacent grinding wheel @1:20? No? M-kay, I'll just stand on the other side of the wall when you spin it up. chuckle
I don't think you were alone, I think Mr. Murphy was there for a wee bit.
Not gonna lie, this is reminiscent of 83% of every repair that I end up doing.
Problems on top of problems and every damn rabbit ends up coming out of the hat.
Can of worms, every fuckin time.
We call them issues in our shop. And then the grease guns always fucking empty. When you're 10 mi away
Just about sums up my life.
It’s Clusterfu*ks all the way down.... and it’s a long way....
As my Mexican best friend who recently passed was fond of saying, _"Contingencies, Cabron, contingencies!"_
The last 5 seconds is gold. Man I can relate.
...meanwhile over in Moline, Illinois, the sounds of clipboards clacking off walls and floors could be heard.
Seems like an easy fix all you need is a well equipped machine shop, a welder and a portapower 🤣
And a wallet so loaded you need a forklift to move it
Don't forget you a need a professional choocher and helper to yell at to keep the flashlight steady and pointed at the right thing
You know it's a job will done when half your tools are now on the floor after you are done and you only started with a couple of wrenches and a hammer.
Absolutely true!
It all started with bent push tube on a boom lift!
Just a couple of wrenches and sockets!
And Thennnnnnn,
Grinder (with cutting wheel),
Various pry bars, left hand drill bits, extractors ,more extractors !
Then i put my D!*k in a vise and thought what would AVE do!?
Then i remembered him posting a video of a technique i hadn't used since 05!
The good ol Nut N Welder!!!
Bwahaha! I just ran out of grease today too. Grease tubes are like propane tanks on grills. Empty when needed most.
I work for a mom n pop rental company only 5 locations, and due to the covid situation ...
I have not missed more than 10 days of work since the outbreak!
That being said, the rental industry DOES NOT STOP!
we're in need of Mechanics!
I end up working alone!
So over the years I've learned to use ratchet straps,chains,pry bars,an aluminum home made punch, never seize and a rubber deadblow hammer to replace pins!
Granted you have to use whatever you have in different situations, but whenever i hear a 16-20 lb sledgehammer in a fully equipped shop ...
I stop whatever I'm doing and go help the NEW GUY!
If anyone walks away from that job after completion saying "I've fit bigger things in tigher places", they're lying to ya. If the pin just slides right in ya need a new hole buddy, and that goes for changing machine pins too.
i said "I've fit bigger things in tighter places before" and my gf chuckled and said "Big?". As a tear moved down my cheek i asked her to give me my credit card back :'(
@@altonb93 Just means your GF is ashamed and trying to cover it with humor.
Yeah, I hate it when I get the ol' "hot dog in a hallway" feeling.
For those times you don't have a working hydraulic pump. A good scissor jack can make the difference. Yes is not equal to hydraulic jack but better than a rock and screwdriver.
If you've ever wire wheeled a rim on a tire changer, you'll find out what cactus sack is. You'll stand a little more to the right next time lmao
You got the same type of grease gun as mine .. The EMPTY type.
That welding move seems like overkill. Good job sir 👍
For the record, using a harder grade of bolt may just make it snap off quicker depending on the type of loading.
Thise pin are generally induction hardened chrome lined. Perfect for the application. Soft inside hard outside
I, as a keyboard mechanic, would like to point out that proper preload of said bolt is important too. One well calibrated elbow wrench click is the correct amount.
@@scottpippin80085 like a skinhead who works in a kitten shelter?
@@MattyEngland Ha! That's perfect.
"Shut yer face or me and Mittens here will slice you up!"
Don't use bolts on your records, or CDs
Had a grinding wheel come apart and hit me as a young man. Good idea to stand to one side of those as well
When I nod my head , you hit it!
The old John Deere warranty is a lot like the company dental plan. We all keep our mouths shut, and we all get to keep our teeth! o7
"Runs like a Deere" is on its way out, got to make room for "Stinks like a John!"
Loved the final shot on the Jack as pin slowly slid in to home, the best “money shot” I’ve seen all year!
The pain in his voice when his grease gun was empty. I felt that lmao
That final sentence has been muttered by people all across the trades. Really warms my heart.
I like how the prybar cleared the grease fitting. It's meant to be.
Air hammers work great on pins also.
7:13 that grunt when a piece of equipments has tested you far too long and you have to bring the enerpac out 😂
That box at 9:30 has a lot of Dutch stickers on it! One licence plate NL, one Limburg (which is a province), two soccer clubs (PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord Rotterdam). Quite a surprise to see this pop up in a video from so far away! Would love to hear the story of how you that got there, a gift maybe, travels?
"Stinkle, stinkle, little fart"....I will never cease to be amazed by the truly endless supply of colloquialisms and amusing inversions you have stored away, and I've already adopted dozens of them
In Russia Deere John puts pin in you!
3:10 Good to see the safety rags being employed.
I felt that last part in my soul.
“Every. Fucking. Time.”
I love the breaking the 4th wall - "If I could just get you to hold this"
This was my favorite scene from shake hands with danger. I was always wondering what it looked like if it was done right.
Why not turning the groof around the pin so it can rotate?
I love my Enerpac. Perfect tool for the sketchy solo adventure that the bossman and safety guy need to be far far away from.
AvE asking us to grab the pry bar is like Matt at Diesel Creek asking us to watch the camera and tell him when something happens.
I mean, if I could break the laws of physics to do so, I would!
I didn't realize pin repair would be a mini series. Can't wait for the next episode
Grease guns and inflatable wheelbarrow tires change state depending on your level of frustration. Job going well? Grease gun'll be full and wheelbarrow tire'll be hard as steel. Job going poorly? The grease gun will have two pumps of grease in it and the wheelbarrow tire will go flat and debead at the farthest point from anything that could inflate it.
90% of the time when I had a pin go in that hard, I ended up finding some other more serious issue. Stiff pins are no good.
Yes, that seems way too tight for a pin, might be why it failed so quick. Looks like a low hour machine.
I wonder if having the blade supported off to one side instead of balanced in the middle was causing it to bind.
@@martyk1156 Wonder my behind! Twas a rhetorical question.
I can taste the sarcasm!
Usually I go to get the grease and usually it's 45 c here in Australia and I find that the friggin grease in the heat has separated out and the oil part from it is now all over the bench the grease gun was sitting on
Good job Ave!! As for those pesky grease guns running out of grease... I swear, those dang leprechauns sneak around in the dark and suck the grease right out of 'em!!
Had a visit from the safety inspectors. They demanded eye protection for the grinder. Found a reasonably cheap and fast solution. Two pieces of thin bent plate mounted on the wheel guards. A plate of scrap polycarbonate/plexiglas on those bent plates. So when you stand close enough to the grinder you look down through the polycarbonate. Nothing flings up towards your face and its easy and cheap to replace.
The safety inspectors were happy and gave their smiley face approval stamp on the documents.
Many grinders are sold with these preinstalled but they're only good for a couple uses, then they're fogged beyond repair to the point where you flip them up out of the way to see what you're doing, and then they're not helping you any.
Nice to see some Dutch stickers in your toolbox!!
I saw the L1mburg sticker in your toolbox! Awesome, you're the best! Greetings from Limburg in The Netherlands!!
I wish you were my shop daddy. I learn useful man skills every single video
torque test channel made me get the latest dewalt mid impact. now every bolt snaps right in half easy peasy.
o and I think kioti/daedong make jd for the asian market but maybe just tractors. heh. dong.
I felt your pain with the grease gun always being out. I think there's grease fairies thay nab it or something when we aren't looking.
Ya know for a second while there was no talkin' I forgot and thought I was watchin Andrew Camarata 😂
Loved the John Deer warranty comment.
If you break it half in two you get to keep both pieces 😂
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Did you try giving her some of that hard shaft? It might loosen her up a bit.
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Fingers in that hole to get your pin aligned?! That was the scene from shake Hands w Dangers that gave me the heebeegee B’s the mostest . Or was that just inuendo?
If you wouldn’t stick your dingus in it, then don’t stick your finger in it!
Eerily similar to my caretaker time on the horse farm up in western Massachusetts, watching nearly the whole damn shop slowly transport itself to the site of the offending equipment's forfeit. You know, over the coarse of 969 trips to and fro the shop.
The best part was at the end when you were out of Grease. I had a Lock N Lube commercial come on.
So do they charge you extra for the chance to repair their garbage or do you get a free reach-around for your troubles?
i dont know what i want more, his book of one liners or his machinist knowledge.
the book would probably be a hot seller
Almost broke a sweat watching you do field work while I fold laundry barefoot
I gotta say, I've never had such trouble gettin' my thingy into a tight hole as ya did there... but I've done such as that since afore I was a yungun i've sure smelt my share a grease and it's a lot nicer watchin u do it then rememberin' when I did. thanks for Sharon!
Previous Oliver Cletrac owner here - I feel your pain, 10x. One day, John's Derriere will be the new Oliver, I am sure of it. Cheers!!
Always fun to watch the right tool do the the job.
I went through this same situation on a Takeuchi recently. Pins so froze up torching and enerpac only bent the ears on the frame. Had to cut through the pins with a Sawzall for hours through the tiny cracks and push the pieces out individually. Good times.
Nice to see Uncle Bumblefack using Amsoil grease. The water resistant grease is good stuff, but I would be using the polymeric off-road grease on stuff seeing lots of load like those pins. Its 5% moly so you are getting your vitamins and minerals.
I was wondering how long it would take to put the ole enerpac on it 🤣🤣 when ever I'm dealing with a pin like that it's the first thing to come out. Found out long ago hammers only help if you're having a bad day and need to get some face time with your demons
Spring maintenance season here in the Daaaaaakotas too. Who needs a multi-process weldin' machine when we got a perfectly good collection of migs, arcs, and this absolute Unit here hey!!!
most of the bobcat mini excavators and some of the bigger ones use a snap ring on one side of the pin and a bolt through the middle of other end, the worst ive seen with those is the bolt breaking at the nut end or just not being tight enough and they fall out, the only pins ive seen fall out are on the bobtach's (mounting plate for attachments)
Not gonna lie, I love these videos and love comment trends.
Always find your videos entertaining. Its almost like you know what your doing
Nah, he's just had a few decades of pretending
10:43 - I literally laughed out loud. I like you. This is one of my favorite youtube channels. Why is your pain my joy?
You know he really was mad, it sounded like a different guy, like younger somehow, weird.
Comedy is someone else's tragedy seen at a distance.
My pin hasn’t been that stiff in years. Definitely needs lube, too.
I used to work at a little mom and pop job shop in Muenster, TX that made those pins for Caterpillar. I did the grinding on the OD. I want to say the tolerance was something like .0003 of an inch.
I had what I thought was a spot just above my knee for weeks 😓it was driving me crazy so I tried to dig it out and I found a 2" stainless steel wire 👍
When I used to work as a heavy equipment mechanic we had a slide hammer the size of a #10 tin can that weighed about 80lbs. Wouldnt work in this case because of the tight area, but worked like a champ on the boom cylinder pins.
Is there anything more satisfying than switching from ratchet end to engineer torque when finishing up a job? I live by, when the knuckles are white you know it’s tight 😂
A little surprised that you were surprised the grease gun was out of grease. I feel your pain.
The way you polished that pin makes me think this isn't your first hand finish.